Questions tagged [facebook]
a social network launched in 2004
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Remove an app from Notification Center preference pane
My girlfriend added Facebook to my Notification Center. I tried to set the alert style to none, and you can see the check mark to show items in Notification Center is deselected.
I want it completely ...
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How do I download a Facebook messenger audio file?
A loved one recorded an audio message on Facebook messenger for me; it looks like the image below. I'm trying to download it, but nearly all of the ways to capture it don't see that the file exists, ...
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Can't find or use San Francisco in apps like Sketch
I understand that the font is only available for developers, but i'm not one at the moment, but when trying to use facebook sketch template for ios9 i get a prompt saying this
My question is if ...
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Why is Facebook app for iPhone so slow to load the content?
Why is Facebook app for iPhone so slow to load the content (in particular posts comments) and it sometimes doesnt retrieve the posts at all?
The website works quite well and fast but the app is ...
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Can Facebook Messenger spy on me to the degree many sites are claiming?
Its going around now that Facebook is attempting to shift its Messaging users from using the main Facebook app to the Facebook Messenger app. Many sites have posted stories (though admittedly dated) ...
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Internet Accounts spontaneously forgets passwords and I can't reauthorize them
I've had this problem before, but I was able to resolve it that time. macOS 10.13.4, everything up to date. Yesterday, Internet Accounts forgot my LinkedIn password and would not reauthenticate. Today,...
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Sync only accepted Facebook events in iOS calendar
If I activate the Facebook calendar sync on my iOS device all events are input in my calendar. Even those I denied. It's there a way to sync only those I accepted?
If it's not possible to do it with ...
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How does the Facebook Camera App know who I am the first time I go into it?
If you have the Facebook App on your iOS device, and you download the Facebook Camera App, the first time you go into Facebook Camera, you get:
Continue as David W.
(or whatever you're name is)
In ...
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Display facebook profile pictures full size on call
I synced my friends' Facebook profile pictures with the facebook iPhone app. When I get a call from someone it has the picture displayed in small in the top right corner.
When someone calls whose ...
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Facebook notifications are shown multiple times
Whenever I get a new Facebook notification, the same message is displayed 20 times in the notification center. I noticed this is only the case for Facebook, and I've been experiencing this since I ...
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Why does iOS insist on using my Facebook email address?
I fill out webforms on my iphone fairly often. I use autocomplete to speed this process along, and it works pretty well for the most part. However, for some reason, it always insists on using an @...
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How can I upload high-res photos to Facebook from my iPad
I've bought the New iPad and have been using iPhoto to upload my pictures to Facebook. However, when I view them the quality doesn't look good. When browsed from the desktop Facebook site, the site ...
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Facebook Page notifications in OSX 10.8.2 Notification Center
I currently have my Facebook account linked up to my Notification Center on my Macbook Pro - great!
However, I do have a Facebook page (relatively low traffic) and I'd like to receive notifications ...
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Link Contacts between Facebook and iCloud
I have iOS6 and OSX 10.8. Both bring Facebook integration. It was smart enough for some of my contacts to merge (or "link") them. However for some on my iPhone I manually edited the contact card and ...
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Twitter And Facebook Integration Missing In Notification center?
I have recently installed Mountain Lion and noticed that 'Sharing' via Facbook and Twitter are missing!
I have checked the System Preferences to enable this feature but I am stuck. Can anyone help me?...
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Mountain Lion Messages Facebook Jabber connection problem
This is a very weird problem I'm having with my Messages app on Mountain Lion. I have two accounts: a Google Talk and a Jabber account that is linked to my Facebook chat. Whenever I open my Messages ...
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Can Safari receive desktop notifications from YouTube or Facebook?
Since switching from Chrome to Safari, I've noticed that I no longer have an option to enable desktop notifications from YouTube or Facebook. For example, going to YouTube's settings > account ...
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Does an iOS app have the ability to set iOS Safari cookies?
My specific interest is in the context of the Facebook for iOS app, but it can be asked of an iOS app really.
Given all the recent changes to Facebook and the way that Facebook cookies are not ...
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How do I share a post in the Facebook app for iPad?
My mom uses the Facebook app for iPad and wanted to share a post, such as on the web interface:
How does one share a post within the app?
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Where did Twitter and Facebook accounts go in iOS 11?
so I did not realize I was lacking this until I couldn’t use Twitter or Facebook to login to certain other accounts. I can’t seem to locate the area in Settings where I once had Twitter and Facebook ...
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iChat + facebook disconnection
Previously in SL I had chax to make sure iChat was always signed in.
Now on Lion I constantly find that iChat is disconnected from Facebook chat (jabber).
Does anyone have a clever idea to keep it ...
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How to block Facebook app and facebook.com from loading on an iOS device
On a Windows or Mac computer, I'd edit the hosts file:
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 fbcdn....
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Facebook notification sound in OSX: cannot switch off
In OSX Mountain Lion I'm getting beeps every time a facebook notification comes in. In System Preferences > Notifications > Facebook i have set my alert style to None. In the list on the left, the ...
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Facebook Birthdays in Notification Centre
I'm a big fan of the Facebook integration in iOS 6, but it brings with it birthdays for all my Facebook contacts. I've figured out how to remove it from my calendar (de-select the calendar) but it ...
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“Memory Trace Upload was successful” message randomly appeared on iPhone
While in the Facebook app, a grey box with light grey text appeared randomly at the top of the screen, saying “Memory Trace Upload was successful”. I don’t have a jail broken iPhone and did not do ...
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iPhone Facebook integration overrides local contact names
IOS 6 on iPhone 4.
I enabled Facebook integration and it correctly associated many contacts in the address book with Facebook friends. There were some errors (a contact got linked to a person I don't ...
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Remove existing Facebook account from OS X
I had synchronized my personal Facebook account on OS X Mountain Lion in System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars through the Facebook tab. I removed it and synchronized my official ...
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How can I use different facebook account to sign in a game on iphone?
I used a facebook account to sign in a game on my iphone ( the game is "top eleven"). Now I want to change the account and use another one because I have more friends in 2nd account.
Already used 2nd ...
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How can I make Instagram photos shared to Facebook visible to my friends by default?
When I share photos from Instagram to Facebook (using the Instagram app on iOS), by default they get "Only Me" sharing visibility:
That doesn't seem very useful to me - I'd rather my friends saw them....
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How to select which iOS device receives push notifications (for Facebook)
I've got an iPad 2 and an iPhone 3GS, both of which have the official Facebook app. Since I set up Facebook on my iPad, only my iPad has been receiving notifications from Facebook. (I think this might ...
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I think my Mac swallowed Facebook and Twitter - How to get them back?
I upgraded today from Sierra to Mojave and now my share menu seems to be broken.
Previously I could share content directly to sites like Facebook and Twitter. For instance I could right-click on a ...
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What port does iPhone native Facebook app use?
The network at my place is using a proxy. So I have set up the proxy in iPhone. I can connect to the internet and access Facebook using the Safari browser without any problem. However when I access ...
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What does it take to get FaceBook to stop pushing notifications to my iPhone?
I don't want FaceBook to put any notifications on my iPhone's home screen for anything, ever.
I've gone into the iPhone's "settings" app and turned off all notifications for FaceBook.
I've gone ...
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Facebook app shuts down itself on iPhone 4
I have an iPhone 4. The Facebook application was working fine until this morning. When I start the Facebook app, it shuts down immediately. I tried restarting the phone but it's the same. No jailbreak,...
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What is "AddressBookUrlForwarder"?
Today I clicked a link on Facebook and a dialogue window gave me the message:
"The link needs to be opened with an application. Send to:
AddressBookUrlForwarder
Upon examining the link, it had ...
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How to make Facebook for iPhone open links in Safari?
Is there a way to make Facebook for iPhone (and other iPhone apps like Google & Yelp) always open links in Safari (or YouTube, etc.) instead of in an internal web view?
The native apps like ...
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Limited FaceBook friends show up in Contacts app in Mavericks or Yosemite
I configured my Facebook account in OS X (both Mavericks & Yosemite) using following article >> http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18993
I have 200+ friends on FB, but on Contacts app it just shows 38....
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Facebook Contacts disappearing from contacts
I am using the iOS Facebook Integration, which adds my Facebook friends to my contacts in the phone app.
Yesterday I noticed that some of these Facebook contacts have been disappeared, despite being ...
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Open Facebook URL in Facebook App
I know using the fb://URL scheme I can open certain links in the Native Facebook App,
e.g. fb://page/137947732957611 will open the Apple Facebook page.
Is there anyway I can open pages without ...
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How exactly do I get Facebook to link my friends to iPhoto's Faces tags when sharing from iPhoto?
I'm preparing to upload an iPhoto event to Facebook for the first time (I'm using iPhoto '11 and my Mac runs Mac OS X 10.7), except I can't quite get Facebook to turn iPhoto's Faces tags into links to ...
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Download an entire Facebook album for offline browsing?
I would like to download albums off of Facebook onto my iPhone.
I tried the app called "Fb Photos download," but it seems that it downloads only by a group of 12 photos.
Is there an iOS app that ...
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Tagging Faces in Aperture 3 and syncing with Facebook tags
When I tag someones face in Aperture, it lets me either choose a name from Facebook (with the FB icon), or from my Address Book. Sometimes, these names may differ.
One of my issues with uploading to ...
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How to connect a Facebook account to Adium?
For some reason I can't get Adium to connect to Facebook. Facebook refuses to log me in every time I try.
I have the right email address and the right password... but it keeps asking for password.
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Facebook video calling problem in Safari
I have a little issue with Safari. I can't make video calls with Facebook Messenger in Safari. I know that with Google Chrome or Firefox we can avoid this problem, but as you know Safari is optimized ...
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Is there an app to chat on Facebook on iOS?
Is there an app to chat on Facebook on iOS ?
I would like to be laptop free
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How to prevent iOS from styling an emoji?
Look at these characters: 💬💬︎🌄🌄︎
Depending on your device, they'll look like this (a Windows screenshot of a Facebook comment):
Notice how the 2nd and 4th emojis are flat rather than ...
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Do "Click to Tweet" and "Click to Post" still exist?
Mountain Lion had "Click to Tweet" and "Click to Post" buttons in Notification Center if you had Twitter and Facebook configured in System Preferences>Internet Accounts. However, I can't find them. I'...
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hack or something similar on my iPad Air [closed]
I am new to using an iPad but I clicked accidentally on a bad link in Facebook and since then My Skype has been hacked and sending erroneous messages to my Skype contacts..how do I find out and remove ...
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Battery status shows background activity but background app refresh and location permissions are off
As an iOS developer, I am extremely curious about this case: Battery usage on my iPhone 6 (iOS 8.1) shows that the main reason of battery draining on my phone are Facebook and Twitter, both have a ...
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Mac OS X Yosemite Facebook photo posts to OSX Album only
The native integration of facebook and Mac OSX Yosemite. I am trying to post a photo with the native integration and the dialog already has "Timeline" Selected but yet it posts to "OS X Photos" album ...
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